Author: Brooke Singman

FOX NEWS Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his associate Rick Gates have been indicted by a federal grand jury Monday on 12 counts, according to the special counsel’s office. The special counsel’s office told Fox News that the counts include conspiracy against the United States, conspiracy to launder money, unregistered agent of a foreign principal, false and misleading FARA statements, false statements and seven counts of failure to file reports of foreign banks and financial accounts. The case was unsealed Monday, after Manafort and Gates were permitted to surrender themselves to the custody of the FBI, the...

FOX NEWS President Trump slammed liberal billionaire Tom Steyer on Friday as “wacky” and “totally unhinged,” after he launched a multi-million dollar ad campaign calling for Trump’s impeachment. “Wacky & totally unhinged Tom Steyer, who has been fighting me and my Make America Great Again agenda from beginning, never wins elections!” Trump tweeted early Friday. Steyer, a staunch environmentalist and Trump critic, launched a $10 million national campaign ad calling for the president’s impeachment last week. The one-minute ad calls Trump “mentally unstable [and] armed with nuclear weapons.” It accuses the president of obstructing justice in his firing of...

FOX NEWS Sept. 17, 2014: Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, and Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., right, the ranking member, confer before a hearing to investigate the 2012 attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is calling for a Pentagon briefing for members in the wake of the attack in Niger that killed four U.S. service members and left two severely injured. Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., and Ranking Member Elijah Cummings, D-Md., penned a letter to Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Wednesday, requesting...

FOX NEWS President Trump and Sen. Bob Corker reignited their feud on Tuesday, exchanging a series of digs after the retiring Republican lawmaker ramped up his criticism of the administration and its policies. “Sen. Corker is the incompetent head of the Foreign Relations Committee, & look how poorly the U.S. has done,” Trump tweeted Tuesday. “He doesn’t have a clue as the entire World WAS laughing and taking advantage of us. People like liddle’ Bob Corker have set the U.S. way back. Now we move forward!” Tuesday’s war of words began when Corker, R-Tenn., the Chairman of the Senate...

FOX NEWS President Trump slammed the lack of “leadership” in the NFL early Monday, after yet another weekend of national anthem protests. “Two dozen NFL players continue to kneel during the National Anthem, showing total disrespect to our Flag & Country. No leadership in NFL!” Trump tweeted. The president’s tweet comes one week after NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and NFL owners held their annual fall meeting in New York City, where the league discussed “plans to utilize” their platform “to promote equality and effectuate positive change” — but seemingly did not set a league-wide requirement that players stand for...

FOX NEWS Asked to comment on the Harvey Weinstein scandal, Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, right, told a reporter that women bear a certain “responsibility” to watch how they dress, and their behavior. (Reuters/AP ) A Democratic congresswoman from Texas suggested in a local TV interview that women bear a certain “responsibility” when it comes to sexual harassment, saying their attire and behavior can be “inviting.” Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Texas, later sought to clarify her comments and explained they came from an “old-school”perspective. But in the original interview with NBC 5 on Wednesday, Johnson ‘went there’ when asked to...

FOX NEWS While sparks were flying during Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ Senate testimony, soda was spilling. In a sorely needed moment of comic relief during Wednesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing with Sessions, Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., followed up a heated exchange by declaring he had “dumped a Dr. Pepper” on Sen. Ted Cruz. The admission came right after Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., and Sessions clashed over Franken’s Russia-related allegations. “There was some drama there,” Sasse noted, in an awkward moment, before transitioning to the soda situation. “Sorry to have added to the drama and distracted you for a minute....

FOX NEWS Strict gun laws passed in two states to require background checks for every firearm sale had virtually no effect, a new study has found. Gun violence experts from the Center for Gun Policy and Research and the Violence Prevention Research Program conducted a study in Washington state, Colorado and Delaware to analyze whether state laws requiring more background checks actually resulted in more checks. The results, published in medical journal Injury Prevention, suggest the laws had little impact. Delaware was the only state that saw apparent results, with an increase ranging from 22 to 34 percent based...